Word: omb
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Because of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-21, professors doing research with Federal funds must now fill in "effort reports, "detailed breakdowns of the percentage of time they spend on research, teaching and other activities...
Unswerving devotion to the path of "the true believer" brought on the attack on Haig and similar denunciations of other GOP bigwigs. Favorite punching bags of the weekly include OMB director David Stockman, White House Chief of Staff James Baker, and a slew of Republican Congressional leaders...
...State-of-the- Union address neared. The magazine feared that Reagan's top advisors would spur the President to compromise his economic plans by jacking up taxes. When Reagan rejected tax increases in his speech to Congress, Human Events congratulated him for resisting the "unremitting pressure" of his OMB director and chief of staff...
...other Senators carried on the attack. Referring bitingly to a "credibility problem" at OMB, Tennessee Democrat James Sasser declared: "We're going to have to have truth in packaging this year." Even Illinois Republican Charles Percy wondered about the Administration's real commitment to the New Federalism, asking: "Is this a pretext for budget cutting...
...budget, which is as much his handiwork as the President's. He personally wrote Reagan's budget message, as well as 75 pages of the 610-page document; he even redrew charts and footnotes to make the presentation clearer. Said an amazed career official at OMB: "We've been lucky in the past if our Director even read all of the budget before it went to the printer. In this case, Stockman wrote it." Now the OMB Director is emerging from his self-imposed isolation. Last week he made his first public appearance before Congress since...